Sara and Emily are back after a break from podcasting! In this episode, they talk about how your voice can be damaged, but more importantly how you can heal and reclaim your voice.
As we walk through the season of Advent, we want to invite you to reflect more deeply on what each week leading up to the celebration of the birth of Christ represents - Hope, Peace, Joy, and Love. In our previous two episodes we talked about what hope and peace look like when they’re centered on Jesus. Today, we talk about joy and how we can choose to have joy in the midst of difficult circumstances. As we bring our authentic selves to God, He can turn our mourning into gladness.
A common lie we believe is that we are not enough. But, what if we don't have to be? Join Emily and Sara as they talk about how God uses us despite our perceived shortcomings. When we step out in faith, the outcome is always more than we could imagine, because He is enough.
Often, we enter a new year with the best intentions to make radical changes to our lives setting goals and resolutions. We aren’t quite a full month into 2024, for those of you who have made resolutions, how many of you have already given up on them? In this episode, Emily and Sara talk about how we can make resolutions that stick, and how important it is that those goals bring us closer to Jesus.
As we walk through the season of Advent, we want to invite you to reflect more deeply on what each week leading up to the celebration of the birth of Christ represents - Hope, Peace, Joy, and Love. In this episode, we talk about how floating in the perfect love of God allows our love for others to be complete.
As we walk through the season of Advent, we want to invite you to reflect more deeply on what each week leading up to the celebration of the birth of Christ represents - Hope, Peace, Joy, and Love. This week we talk about what true peace is when it is found in Jesus. It is not just the absence of conflict, it is also the act of restoring what is broken. When we receive peace in the presence of God, we can carry that peace with us to a broken world.
In these weeks leading up to Christmas, we would like to invite you to reflect more deeply on what each of the four candles of Advent represent- Hope, Peace, Joy, and Love. First, hope. When we think about hope specifically during the first week of Advent, we reflect on how Christ came into the world to bring hope to a broken people in need of salvation. Prophecies fulfilled through His birth, death, and resurrection give us hope for the prophecies that remain unfulfilled, the second coming of Christ our King.
We are officially entering the advent season, but before we begin celebrating the anticipation of the arrival of Jesus our Savior, we want to have a conversation on gratitude. The Bible calls us to gratitude from beginning to end and science tells us the benefits of expressing gratitude. As we move into the advent season, let's continue to remember all of the blessings God has given us in our lives, to be present and see God at work in the little and the big, but then to remember the bigger gift He has given in his son and the hope that brings us. The hope that allows us to experience joy in every circumstance.
In the last couple of episodes, we’ve talked about what unhealthy church cultures look like, the harm they cause, and how to walk through the harm toward healing. In this episode, we want to talk about what it looks like to contend for healthy culture in your church. As we depend on the Holy Spirit, certain characteristics should be evident in ourselves and our churches.
In this episode, we continue a conversation in response to a listener’s question about the tension between church holding some of our greatest memories along with some of our deepest hurts. What do you do when you’ve been wounded by the church? Ignore what happened and stay? Pretend everything is fine? Deconstruct your faith? Give up on the church all together? It is possible to stay with Jesus while you walk through the wounding. Listen in as we share, authentically, about our journeys toward healing.
In this episode, Sara and Emily answer a listener question about their thoughts on deconstruction and the tension between beautiful memories and deep woundings from church experience. If you have been wounded by the church - we see you, you are not alone, and what happened to you is not okay. This episode may contain triggers for those who have been wounded as we talk about the definitions of spiritual abuse, church hurt, and religious trauma. But Jesus. He is with us as we try to make sense of our experiences and rebuild our faith on a solid foundation.
Sara and Emily continue their mini-series on Seasons of Life. Seasons of loss can be devastating, and waiting seasons can be hard, but out of those losses our eyes can be opened to areas of cultivation that can take place during a season of waiting. 2A season of cultivation in our lives isn’t concerned with surface level changes or improvements. It’s about the deep transformation so that lasting changes and improvements can take place, and we can be healthy enough to produce fruit in our next season.
Waiting is hard. In this episode, Sara and Emily share their own challenges in seasons of waiting, as well as the beauty that can come in the in-between when we press in to Jesus. Listen to The Daily Grace Podcast episode we referenced here: https://thedailygraceco.com/blogs/the-daily-grace-podcast/women-and-calling-with-kelly-needham-ep-249
In our lives, we go through many different seasons. In this episode, we're going to talk about Seasons of Loss. This is not an easy season to talk about, but again - it’s necessary, and the things we experience in seasons of loss tend to prepare us for growth and development that comes in other seasons, much like how the deadness of Winter paves way for the new life of Spring. Join us as we authentically share about our own seasons of loss, and how we can process through them.
We’re so glad you’re here with us in Season 2 as we continue to walk alongside you, authentically, as we follow Jesus together! Join us in this episode as we give a preview of the first topic we'll cover: Seasons of Life. There are seasons of life we enjoy and ones we dread, but isn’t it like God to use them all, for His glory and for our growth? Over the next few weeks of the podcast, we are going to take some time to talk about how to navigate different seasons in our lives, seasons of waiting, seasons of growth and preparation, and seasons of loss.
Emily and Sara are joined by Allison Jones, a counselor at Cornerstone of Hope. Tune in to hear about how to know when it's time to seek professional counseling, steps we can take to improve our mental health on our own and in community, and how we can help break the stigma surrounding mental health issues.
When our lives are busy, particularly when they feel overwhelming and beyond a healthy capacity, we often neglect taking care of ourselves: our bodies, our minds and our souls. In this episode, Sara and Emily talk to Dr. Elisha Jones from Jones Chiropractic to learn how stress impacts our physical bodies and how we can better take care of ourselves. If any of our listeners would like to learn more about Jones Chiropractic, or perhaps schedule a first visit, you can go to https://www.drjoneschiropractic.com/ or call 419 331-2040
Emily and Sara have loved walking through this series on eliminating hurry and slowing down our lives with you. When our lives are busy, particularly when they feel overwhelming and beyond a healthy capacity, we often neglect taking care of ourselves: our bodies, our minds and our souls. In this episode, we are specifically going to talk about caring for our souls.
Licensed counselor, Haley Teodosio, joins us for this week's episode. You've heard people say "shame on you", but we are saying "shame off us" as we talk about how we can conquer shame in our lives.
In this episode, we continue talking about things we can put into practice to un-hurry our lives. This episode focuses on simplicity. We talk about how simplicity begins with an inward shift toward the Kingdom of God as our top priority. Once this inward shift occurs, we can see our possessions as gifts that we can trust God with and make available to others, loosening our grip on material things.